Accordingtothe BBC, Liberia’s new president George Weah wants to abolish a legal provision that gives exclusive blackness to Liberian nationality. It was in his first annual speech on the state of the nation that he stressed this clause that has existed since the creation of Liberia by slaves released from the United States in 1847. Read More

Former NBA player Rasual Butler and his wife were killed in a single-vehicle crash in Studio City, California, early Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office confirmed to ESPN. He was 38. Read More

WASHINGTON –Addressing a deeply divided nation, President Donald Trump summoned the country to a “new American moment” of unity in his first State of the Union, challenging Congress to make good on long-standing promises to fix a fractured immigration system and warning darkly of evil forces seeking to undermine America’s way of life.